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October 29, 2009, 10:00 AM ET
Hiring and Firing Bytes
• Faculty layoffs at the University of Maine system are likely, Chancellor Richard Pattenaude said this week, the Kennebec Journal reports. Meanwhile the president of Dartmouth College, Jim Yong-Kim, says he's also considering faculty job cuts, WCAX.com reports.
• "Is your administration using 'the economy' as an excuse to extort more work for less pay from an already overburdened faculty?," Marc Bousquet asks on the Brainstorm blog. Howard Bunsis, Eastern Michigan University accounting professor and American Association of University Professors treasurer, thinks so.
• In a recent op-ed in The News Tribune, Keith Hoeller, co-founder of the Washington Part-Time Faculty Association, explains why Money magazine's recent ranking of college teaching as the third best job in the United States is way off the mark.
• Lesboprof describes the pros and cons of having extroverts as administrators.
• Mr. Zero explains (with profanity) why he hates online applications.
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